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    Kafka considered Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Nikolai Gogol, Franz Grillparzer, [38] and Heinrich von Kleist to be his "true blood brothers ". [39] Besides these, he took an interest in Czech literature [25] [26] and was also very fond of the works of Goethe.

  2. Jun 30, 2024 · Franz Kafka, German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works, especially The Trial and The Metamorphosis, express the anxieties and the alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and North America.

  3. May 29, 2024 · Franz Kafka is one of the best-known German-language authors in the world, even though he has been dead for 100 years. So why is he still so popular today?

  4. Apr 2, 2014 · Author Franz Kafka explored the human struggle for understanding and security in his novels such as 'Amerika,' 'The Trial' and 'The Castle.'

  5. The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect ( German : ungeheueres Ungeziefer , lit ...

  6. May 23, 2024 · Franz Kafka could not have foreseen how many admirers would read and misread his enigmatic fictions after his death. Credit...

  7. Franz Kafka, Writer. Born: July 3, 1883. Birthplace: Prague (Czech Republic) Died: June 3, 1924 (tuberculosis, age 40) Best Known Work: The Trial and The Metamorphosis.

  8. The Metamorphosis. by Franz Kafka. Translation by Ian Johnston. One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.

  9. Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as The Metamorphosis (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Tri...

  10. Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, a kingdom that was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.